Metallurgic 911 Jet Fuel Myth

If you haven’t seen the documentary “Loose Change“, it is worth a view. However within the movie, they form an argument that opposes the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report. Basically, a metallurgic 911 myth about jet fuel not being able to melt structural steel was introduced to the non-metallurgic population. The argument is that jet fuel only burns at 1500 degrees and steel begins to melt at 2300. Thus, the steel beams of the twin towers could not have been melted by the heat from the jet fuel. Therefore the NIST report was false.

The author of the above video is Pergatory Iron Works. They have been building metalurgic, iron based art works for over twenty years. Experience counts!

Heat, in the range 1500 degree Fahrenheit can noodle structural steel. Although this is not a nondestructive test, it is an example of why non-metallurgists should refrain from promoting the metallurgic 911 jet fuel myth.

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NIST Report
 

Final Reports released in September 2005:

NIST NCSTAR 1: Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster: Final Report of the National Construction Safety Team on the Collapses of the World Trade Center Tower

NIST NCSTAR 1-1: Design, Construction, and Maintenance of Structural and Life Safety Systems

• NIST NCSTAR 1-1A: Design and Construction of Structural Systems

 

• • NIST NCSTAR 1-1A appendixes A-B

   

  • NIST NCSTAR 1-1A appendixes C-G

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-1B: Comparison of Building Code Structural Requirements

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-1C: Maintenance and Modifications to Structural Systems

 

• • NIST NCSTAR 1-1C appendixes

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-1D: Fire Protection and Life Safety Provisions Applied to the Design and Construction of World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 and Post-Construction Provisions Applied after Occupancy

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-1E: Comparison of Codes, Standards, and Practices in Use at the Time of the Design and Construction of World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-1F: Comparison of the 1968 and Current (2003) New York City Building Code Provisions

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-1G: Amendments to the Fire Protection and Life Safety Provisions of the New York City Building Code by Local Laws Adopted while World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 Were in Use

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-1H: Post-Construction Modification to Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems of the World Trade Center Towers

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-1I: Post-Construction Modifications to Fire Protection, Life Safety, and Structural Systems of World Trade Center 7

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-1J: Design, Installation, and Operation of Fuel Systems for Emergency Power in World Trade Center 7

NIST NCSTAR 1-2: Baseline Structural Performance and Aircraft Impact Damage Analysis of the World Trade Center Towers

• NIST NCSTAR 1-2A: Reference Structural Models and Baseline Performance Analysis of the World Trade Center Towers

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-2B: Analysis of Aircraft Impacts into the World Trade Center Towers (Chapters 1-8)

 

• • NIST NCSTAR 1-2B: Chapters 9-11

   

  • NIST NCSTAR 1-2B: appendixes

NIST NCSTAR 1-3: Mechanical and Metallurgical Analysis of Structural Steel

• NIST NCSTAR 1-3A: Contemporaneous Structural Steel Specifications

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-3B: Steel Inventory and Identification

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-3C: Damage and Failure Modes of Structural Steel Components

 

• • NIST NCSTAR 1-3C: appendixes

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-3D: Mechanical Properties of Structural Steels

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-3E: Physical Properties of Structural Steels

NIST NCSTAR 1-4: Active Fire Protection Systems

• NIST NCSTAR 1-4A: Post-Construction Fires prior to September 11, 2001

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-4B: Fire Suppression Systems

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-4C: Fire Alarm Systems

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-4D: Smoke Management Systems

NIST NCSTAR 1-5: Reconstruction of the Fires in the World Trade Center Towers

• NIST NCSTAR 1-5A: Visual Evidence, Damage Estimates, and Timeline Analysis (Chapters 1-8)

 

• • NIST NCSTAR 1-5A: Chapters 9-appendix C

   

  • NIST NCSTAR 1-5A: appendixes D-G

   

  • NIST NCSTAR 1-5A: appendixes H-M

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-5B: Experiments and Modeling of Structural Steel Elements Exposed to Fire

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-5C: Fire Tests of Single Office Workstations

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-5D: Reaction of Ceiling Tile Systems to Shocks

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-5E: Experiments and Modeling of Multiple Workstations Burning in a Compartment

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-5F: Computer Simulation of the Fires in the World Trade Center Towers

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-5G: Fire Structure Interface and Thermal Response of the World Trade Center Towers

NIST NCSTAR 1-6: Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of the World Trade Center Towers

• NIST NCSTAR 1-6A: Passive Fire Protection

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-6B: Fire Resistance Tests of the Floor Truss Systems

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-6C: Component, Connection, and Subsystem Structural Analysis

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-6D: Global Structural Analysis of the Response of the World Trade Center Towers to Impact Damage and Fire

NIST NCSTAR 1-7: Occupant Behavior, Egress, and Emergency Communication

• NIST NCSTAR 1-7A: Analysis of Published Accounts of the World Trade Center Evacuation

 

• NIST NCSTAR 1-7B: Technical Documentation for Survey Administration: Questionnaires, Interviews, and Focus Groups

NIST NCSTAR 1-8: The Emergency Response Operations

Final Reports released in November 2008:

NIST NCSTAR 1A: Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 *

• NIST NCSTAR 1-9: Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of World Trade Center Building 7, Volume 1 and 2 *

 

• • NIST NCSTAR 1-9A: Global Structural Analysis of the Response of World Trade Center Building 7 to Fires and Debris Impact Damage *

* Errata for NIST NCSTAR 1A, NIST NCSTAR 1-9, and NIST NCSTAR 1-9A, Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster: Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of World Trade Center Building 7 (January 2009, April 2012, and June 2012)

 
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